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On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 4:00 PM, Andrew Barchuk <andrew@×××××××.io> wrote: |
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> I don't see a reason to organize distfiles in a |
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> multi-level hierarchy: e.g. if the goal is to keep no more than 1000 |
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> files in a folder than the limit of single level hierarchy is a million |
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> which is more than enough for foreseeable future. The list of 500 |
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> directories takes 15kB when using full file names and will be couple of |
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> times smaller when using only unique prefixes. |
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Then don't. Using one level of first-4-characters-of-filename-hash is |
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still more efficient. |